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1 online resource (vi, 281 pages) |
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Introduction / Jose Gotovitch and Martin Conway -- 1. British Government Policy Towards Wartime Refugees / Colin Holmes -- 2. Pre-War Belgian Attitudes to Britain: Anglophilia and Anglophobia / Jean Stengers -- 3. Belgian Society in Exile: An Attempt at a Synthesis / Luis Angel Bernardo y Garcia and Matthew Buck -- 4. Female Belgian Refugees in Britain during the Second World War: An Oral History / Francoise Raes -- 5. The Reconstruction of Belgian Military Forces in Britain, 1940-1945 / Luc De Vos -- 6. Belgian Military Plans for the Post-War Period / Pascal Deloge -- 7. The Commission pour l'Etude des Problemes d'Apres-Guerre (CEPAG) 1941-1944 / Diane de Bellefroid -- 8. The Staff of the High Commissariat for National Security: A Socio-Professional Profile / Eric Laureys -- 9. The Norwegian Armed Forces in Britain / Chris Mann -- 10. The Czechoslovak Armed Forces in Britain, 1940-1945 / Alan Brown -- 11. The Social History of the Polish Exile (1939-1945). The Exile State and the Clandestine State: Society, Problems and Reflections / Jan E. Zamojski -- 12. France in Exile: The French Community in Britain, 1940-1944 / Nicholas Atkin -- 13. Dutch Exiles in London / N. David J. Barnouw -- 14. The Socialist Internationale: Society or Counter-Society? / Herman Balthazar -- 15. Legacies of Exile: The Exile Governments in London during the Second World War and the Politics of Post-war Europe / Martin Conway |
| Summary |
During World War II, London was transformed into a European city, as it unexpectedly became a place of refuge for many thousands of European citizens who through choice or the accidents of war found themselves seeking refuge in Britain from the military campaigns on the Continent of Europe. In this volume, an international team of historians consider the exile groups from Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Norway and Czechoslovakia, analysing not merely the relations between the plethora of exile regimes and the British government in terms of its military and social dimensions but also the legacy of this period of exile for the politics of post-war Europe. Particular attention is paid to the Belgian exiles, the most numerous exile population in Britain during World War II |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Governments in exile.
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Europeans -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Refugees -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Refugees -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
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Emigration and immigration.
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Europeans.
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Governments in exile.
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Refugees.
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Belgier
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Europäer
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Exil
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Kongress
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Ballingen.
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Vluchtelingen.
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Europeanen.
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Tweede Wereldoorlog.
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Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Réfugiés.
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Réfugiés -- Grande-Bretagne -- 1900-1945.
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Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
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Europe.
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Great Britain.
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Großbritannien
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Grande-Bretagne -- Émigration et immigration -- 1900-1945.
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Europäer.
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Belgier.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Conway, Martin, 1960-
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Gotovitch, José
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| LC no. |
2001025283 |
| ISBN |
9781782389910 |
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1782389911 |
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